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HER Number:

MDV72510

Name:

Drainage System, Exminster

Summary

Post-medieval or modern drainage system on the west bank of the Exeter Canal. Partially depicted on historic maps and visible as an extensive network of earthwork ditches and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken from 1945 onwards.

Protected Status

SHINE: Exminster Radar Station. Structures and earthwork pit and banked features of a Second World War radar station

SHINE: Earthwork ditches forming part of extensive post-medieval or 19th century drainage system, site of of Brunel engine house and associated pond, and site of disused shaft to north-east of Matford Farm

SHINE: Network of field ditches and reclamation banks marked on nineteenth century mapping, on Exminster Marshes

SHINE: Network of field ditches and reclamation banks marked on nineteenth century mapping, on Exminster Marshes

The drainage ditches are visible as an extensive complex of earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken from 1945 onwards. Although some earthworks survive the system is visible much more clearly and completely on sorties from the 1940s and 1950s. The ditches have not been transcribed, but the most useful sorties for interpretation within the project area have been referenced.